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What methods do you often employ to effectively teach music techniques to students?
Pretend you're a new director. How would you go about recruiting new members to your band/choir?
Demonstrate piano and/or percussion (even if these are not your major instruments).
What effective classroom management techniques have you used?
Talk about some of the problems you've noticed in beginning (instrument) players.
What computer programs have you used to make programs for musical events?
Suppose you have a percussionist in your band who is off the wall whenever you do warm-ups with other instruments. How would you handle this?
What are some authentic ways to assess your students?
What music would you use at your first concert as an elementary teacher?
You just found out that one of your students has a problem with another teacher in the school. How would you handle that?
When I go to a concert, I always look at flutes first. Why? What do I see to know that the director is not a flute player?